MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA WAS FAWCETT'S SONG

Last updated: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA WAS FAWCETT'S SONG

Late actress FARRAH FAWCETT inspired soul classic MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA.

Jim Weatherly at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's 22nd Annual Sports Spectacular at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Century City, California - 03.06.07

The tune, which was a huge hit for Gladys Knight & The Pips, was originally titled Midnight Plane to Houston until Whitney Houston's mum Cissy rejigged it.

But songwriter Jim Weatherly insists the hit will always be dedicated to Fawcett and her former husband Lee Majors in his mind.

Weatherly tells Nashville Story Source he wrote the song after chatting to his pal on the phone.

He says, "She said she was packing her clothes and she was gonna go back and visit her folks and she was taking the midnight plane to Houston. When she said that a little bell went off in my head.

"I actually used Farrah and Lee as kind of like the people in the song... It's just a simple little story about a girl that comes to L.A. to make it, becomes a star and everything, finds it too hard and goes back (home)."

Source: WENN

| Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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